Hockey is the sport a scoreboard was invented for: a dozen games at once, scorelines that move while you are in the kitchen, and a clock that means something. One screen carries the whole slate eight games at a time, with the period and the time remaining on every card that matters.
Three kinds of slide, cycling on one screen: the league at a glance, your own teams up close, and the tables and series behind them.
A Saturday can put a dozen games on the ice inside the same hour. The board fits up to eight of them on one slide — score, status and clock for each — with live games first, then finals, then what has not dropped the puck yet. Teams you follow are pulled to the front, so the first page of the board is the one you would have looked for anyway.
All league guidesWhen it is your team, one game gets the whole screen: score, both crests, the face-off time in your own time zone and, while it is being played, the period and the clock — 1st, 2nd or 3rd Period, and OT when it goes past sixty minutes. Two goals in ninety seconds is a normal hockey event, and the card is where you see it happen.
See a game cardConference tables and the division tables beneath them cycle in between the games, which is the only time anyone reads a table willingly. When the Stanley Cup playoffs start, a Playoff Standings slide joins the rotation showing each series being played — the current round and the one before it — so a screen you walk past answers the question on its own.
NBA guideTwo settings do most of the work: the scope, which decides whose games are eligible for the board, and the window, which decides how far back and forward it looks.
Scope for the NHL is the simple pair — All games or My teams. A full night is a dozen or so games, which fits comfortably in two slides, so most people leave it on all games and follow two or three teams on top. Followed teams sort to the front of the board regardless, so you never have to choose between your own team and the rest of the league.
Scores refresh while games are live, typically within a minute of the action, so a goal reaches the screen at roughly the speed a neighbour’s shout does. All of it is set from your phone rather than the screen, and the display updates as soon as you save. Quick presets swap the whole board in one tap, the slide timing is adjustable, and tapping the slide counter at the bottom pauses the rotation on whatever is showing.
The board looks the same on everything. The only real question is how far away you will be standing when you read it.
A second screen is where the eight-game board belongs: the main TV keeps the game you are actually watching and the ticker carries the other seven, periods and clocks included. Install from Google Play on an Android TV or Google TV and approve a short code from your phone — no password typed with a remote. The Android TV setup guide walks through it.
An iPad propped up beside you needs no install at all: open the site in Safari and add it to the home screen. At arm’s length the full-screen cards read better than the dense board, which suits following one game closely through a third period. The iPad setup guide has the steps, including the Auto-Lock setting that stops the screen sleeping at the wrong moment.
Either way TickrDash asks the device to keep the screen awake while the ticker is showing, so it should still be lit for overtime. Any browser tab works too, on a laptop or a spare monitor, and one screen can run several leagues side by side in a single rotation.
Yes. On the full-screen game card of a team you follow, a game in progress shows the period — 1st, 2nd or 3rd Period, or OT — along with the clock, beside the score and the two crests. Before the game it shows the face-off time converted into your own time zone instead.
The game cards start carrying the series with them: a round label — First Round, Second Round, Conference Finals or Stanley Cup Final — and the series status, reading as one team leading 2–1, a series tied 1–1, or a winner at 4–2 once it is decided. A Playoff Standings slide also joins the rotation, showing the round being played and the one before it in one place.
That depends on the window. On All the league’s full window is in play, so last night’s results are still up in the morning and tomorrow’s games appear before they are played. If you would rather the screen only carried today, switch to Today for the whole card or Live & Final for what is happening now plus what has already finished.
Sharing the screen with another league? The NBA guide covers the same playoff surfaces with basketball’s round names, the NFL guide covers Sundays and the field-position strip, and the WNBA guide takes over in the summer. The league hub lists every guide, and the support page answers sign-in and billing.
TickrDash is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NHL. League and team names are used only to describe what the app shows.
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